{"product_id":"the-call-of-the-tribe-9781250321671","title":"The Call of the Tribe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable \"call of the tribe.\" This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Tribe\u003c\/i\u003e, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel laureate, \"tireless in his quest to probe the nature of the human animal\" (Marie Arana, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), maps out the liberal thinkers who helped him develop a new body of ideas after the great ideological traumas of his disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution and his alienation from the ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre, the author who most inspired Vargas Llosa in his youth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe works of Adam Smith, José Ortega y Gasset, Friedrich A. Hayek, Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, and Jean-François Revel helped the author enormously during those uneasy years. They showed him another school of thought, one that placed the individual before the tribe, nation, class, or party and defended freedom of expression as a fundamental value for the exercise of democracy. \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Tribe \u003c\/i\u003edocuments Vargas Llosa's engagement with their work and charts the evolution of his personal ideology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/b\u003e was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature \"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.\" He has also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works include \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of the Goat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e In Praise of the Stepmother\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by FSG. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn King\u003c\/b\u003e is the coeditor, with Efra?n Kristal, of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/i\u003e and has edited and translated several volumes of Vargas Llosa's essays, including \u003ci\u003eMaking Waves \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTouchstones\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an emeritus professor of Latin American cultural history at the University of Warwick, England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181812744466,"sku":"9781250321671","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_375deddf-bad5-43fd-b8aa-cf523855f889.jpg?v=1744873495","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-call-of-the-tribe-9781250321671","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}